Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Do your partners pay any bills of go half each because I pay everything and get no help with bills or food only if I ask for some money I will get help from mine so many people has said get rid I have had talks with him about it but think because I get benefits it's free money so he don't need to help don't help wit...

I’m almost 3 weeks post partum. Does anyone else feel a bit jealous of the freedom their male partner has? Yesterday evening my partner had his friend round for a few drinks and so I was doing all of the childcare even though we didn’t really discuss it. He thinks because he was still home that he was helping with t...

Does anyone else’s baby daddy just take all the time??? Like he just doesn’t seem to wanna do anything else. I’ve got 3 step kids, my son who is 1 and a baby on the way. All he does is sit down and play video games.. it’s really starting to get to me now as he just doesn’t do anything else with his day. He believes ...

I barely get any help from anyone else so while I need to do everything, I also have to manage it all around my clingy baby and even when I can sit down she's on me fidgetting and climbing all over me which overwhelms me so much. When my partner tries to take her she just screams and he doesn't take it well so I jus...

My little one has been so aggressive the past 2 weeks, especially this past week. I've been slapped in the face so many times, had my hair pulled so roughly trying to put in the car seat, kicking and screaming every nappy change, refusing to get dressed or go in the bath, or get out the bath. Food just gets thrown a...

My partner out of nowhere wanted to go out clubbing at midnight last night..I said well obviously I cant go as we have a 4 month old but I said to him 'you can' all i asked was the update me whenever.. I would text him around 2am to ask when he was coming back no response..and where no response so I went to sleep..5...

Is anyone else’s child a nightmare to get ready? Mine will not just let me get him changed and he resists it ALL THE TIME. I end up shouting at him and it the most stressful time of the day. Any tips would be appreciated

Long story short, I have always been the one to handle the majority of things in our lives, cooking, cleaning, buying groceries, including being the breadwinner for most of our relationship. For obvious reasons since becoming parents he has needed to participate more, but I always need to prompt him or absolutely lo...

I find it really hard to play with my 3 year old. She’s so girly and not like me in the slightest in that aspect. At 3, I was playing in mud, getting in all sorts of mess etc, but she’s so girly it’s unreal. At 3, she’s into make up and hair, singing and dancing like your typical girl which is lovely. But when she...

My little one is almost 4 months and I’m struggling with how he never seems content for too long. It might just not feel that long as Ive also got a 3 year old and I’m on my own and he is just a baby but is this a phase? He really is a happy baby when he’s happy but once’s he’s fed or slept (which is only like hal...

I don't know if I'm just being ridiculous 😂 ... it is a possibility, but we have SD every weekend, and every saturday morning, my partners sister will message 'we are going to XYZ do you want to come?' And every weekend my partner says yes. My issue is, it's never the park, or beach or something cheap, it's we're…

I need advice on my two girls dad. We split in march 2023 and both have moved on. Since splitting he sees the girls as and when and it's extremely rare. He works weird hours which is understandable but also works a lot of his time around his girlfriend and her kids. He was due to see the kids today and has now...

Just find out my husband been having sex with different woman while working on the road and I am not ok. August would’ve made 10 years and I was actually proud but now idk how to feel and I recently just gave up my job to be home with our 5 year old son. I honestly don’t know what to do at this point. I’ve been cryi...

So my bf went to see a movie with a friend today. He asked if I wanted to go but I said no bc I don't want to see the movie, I worked 2pm-9pm, and I'll fall asleep in the theater so I told him be can go. That was before finding out it was on a Friday (today) when we had plans so I got really upset bc this isn't he f...

Does anyone else feel alone in parenthood? I don’t see many people other than those in my household, we have family around but we don’t see them much and certainly don’t have help with our children. I’m starting to feel a little jealous of all the people who have so much help with children, those who get days/nights...

Sahm here. One of those days. Couldn't get much done, had to wait until hubs got home to accomplish anything. He took the oldest, I started cooking. Didn't get to finish before little guy is screaming his head off, had to wait while I made plates and removed bread from oven. I put him on the boob while I ate. He's s...

So I have a dilemma. My 4 yr old daughter is in daycare and things were fine until she came home and said she's scared of one of her teachers and she popped her on thr back. However now she's saying she wants to go back to school and be with her friends. I'm innschool and the only break I get to study is when th...

My kids' birthday party is this weekend. I made almost everything myself to save money because we genuinely could not afford to get catered or all pre made food. I busted my butt, had to cook and bake while holding my kid on my hip bc they didn't want anyone else near them, and still have more to do and have handled...

Sometimes I feel like the step parent life isn’t for me. I love my husband, but I don’t want to constantly feel like our household routine gets thrown off because my SD is here and that all bets are off. We have gotten to the point where she doesn’t really acknowledge me like that anymore. My husband acts like being...

If the baby gets fussy at daddy all the time like don’t want him at all even he does everything he can to try to connect with his daughter he gave her baths. He changes her. He talks to her. He plays with her. He feeds her he does everything, but she still cries really hard like she starts choking until she comes ba...